Reading List
- Link O’ The Week: Designer-Oriented Styles – “Thinking in components is to think like a designer. Designers had it right all along.” by James Kyle.
- Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF – “mp4s in <img> tags display 20x faster and decode 7x faster than the GIF equivalent in addition to being 1/14th the file size!” Now available in Safari Next (along with Service Worker, Web App Manifest, Payment Request API. Yay!
- Mary Lee Berners-Lee obituary – RIP Mary Lee Berners-Lee, on the 1951 programming team for the 1st commercial computer, & leader of successful campaign for equal pay for male and female programmers
- The latest ways to deal with the cascade, inheritance and specificity (CSS tricks)
- Lessons Learned, making our app with Web Components – splendid case-study (and nice component architecture) by my brainy chums Ruth John and Ada Rose Cannon
- Frontend in 2017: The important parts
- The WHY behind the WAT: An explanation of JavaScript’s weird type system – yay TypeScript.
- Multi-Colored SVG Symbol Icons with CSS Variables
- One File, Many Options: Using Variable Fonts on the Web
- How to use variable fonts in the real world by Richard Rutter
- Challenges for web developers – Paul Kinlan “wrote this to articulate the challenges of the wider developer ecosystem that my team (Chrome and Web Developer Relations) need to address”
- “display: contents” is coming Finally – (yay, Blink-tickling ex-Operative @runeLi)
- Bad Month for the Main Thread – by Dave Rupert
- Rawss – “Generic CSS polyfill framework, with a CSS variables implementation”. IE-tested and can be used for polyfilling any imagined CSS feature and for general CSS prototyping.
- UN Broadband Commission adopts new target for affordable internet – The “1 for 2 target (1GB of mobile broadband available for 2% or less of average monthly income) was originally proposed by Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)
- Facebook delivers deathblow to ad-driven media models; how publishers can fight back – “the era of ad-driven media businesses is dead”
- Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain – “What if, ten years after it was invented, the reason nobody has adopted a distributed ledger at scale is because nobody wants it?”
- ‘Fiction is outperforming reality’: how YouTube’s algorithm distorts truth (The Guardian)
- We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now – “A user-friendly application has resulted in an explosion of convincing face-swap porn.”
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Every time someone shares that IMG mp4 article, I make the point that the VIDEO element works *fine* as a replacement for animated GIFs *today*. I am a simple person.